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Just before the full revelations of Cambridge Analytica, before Trump and Brexit and the panic that followed. The goal was simply to use the internet for what it’s good for: cost-effective ...
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie testified that former Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon used the firm's research to discourage Democrats from voting in the 2016 election.
There is perhaps no better example of this than the Cambridge Analytica debacle. By the time the dust had settled, Meta had paid nearly $6B. That says nothing of their non-monetary damages.
Facebook's 20-year history has been chequered with controversy - from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and allegations of election interference, to lacking protections against harmful content. Sky ...
Ian Scott, outgoing CEO and chairman, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC): Love him or hate him, during his tenure heading up the CRTC, Ian Scott has made an impact ...
In the dramatisation of the true-life story, 64-year old Fry stars as Ian Gibbons, a pioneering British biochemist, who joins Theranos but is quickly silenced when he voices serious ethical ...
Such independent regulatory scrutiny was evident in the initial actions of the former Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham in seizing information from the disgraced data analytics firm Cambridge ...
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser has released new documents today that illuminate the initial jockeying between the company and Facebook as they discussed the need for Cambridge ...
There's a victim-blamey tone in Brittany Kaiser's memoir Targeted, but what it offers over other look-backs is a more in-the-room account of what exactly, she alleges, was in the company's pitch deck.
In March 2018, Christopher Wylie blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked for the Trump campaign. Cambridge Analytica, the Canadian data scientist revealed, had ...
The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed how the firm targeted users on Facebook with political advertising. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz 's campaigns paid over $5 million ...